J. Douglas Bremner
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 Antibiotics work only against bacteria; they are useless against viruses. viruses cause the common cold, most sore throats, the flu, and many gastrointestinal infections. In spite of this, physicians routinely prescribe antibiotics for the treatment of colds, sore throats, and stomach pain. Because these conditions are typically caused by viruses, antibiotics are useless, and these physicians are actually causing harm by increasing the number of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, with the individual patient deriving absolutely no benefit. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They have found that viruses sequestered the heavy metals, and that the viruses were hard to get out of the body. Well, it turns out that RNA is a tremendous anti-viral substance.
Dr. Gary Gordon was giving these RNA factors to autistic children and knocking out the viruses and then getting the mercury detox. It is a more complex story. It is not like just going in and grabbing something, because somebody is on the other side saying, "No, I want it, and I am staying here." How do you get them out? It is a bigger picture. |
Alex Steffen
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 Along with her team at MIT, the 2004 MacArthur "Genius" established a technique that combines both biomimicry and bio-assistance, using viruses to literally produce battery material based on the way the red abalone generates its shell —but much faster.
The viruses are not engineered, but are put into an environment they normally would never inhabit; their reaction to the surrounding materials turns them into a template that grows the desired material. Belcher and her team have also developed other viruses and yeasts that grow a variety of materials for engineering and medicine. |
Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan
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 Prior evidence had suggested that viral infections may play a role, and indeed, viruses appear to have done so for some infants in the milk study. Specifically, viruses seem to stimulate immune cells, perhaps making them more active against cow's milk proteins than they would normally be. Or, cow's milk proteins may influence the course of viral infections in some way.11 The idea is that the interplay between cow's milk formula and viruses may put babies at increased risk.
No one knows what the research on milk and type 1 diabetes will ultimately show. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 The researchers suggested that flavonoids in these beverages bond with viruses to form noninfectious complexes. Researchers in Japan agree that tea, and EGCG in particular, achieves antiviral effects by interfering with the ability of viruses to adhere to cells.16
The influenza virus is also rendered inactive by green tea's polyphenols. Researchers at the National Institute of Health, Tokyo, Japan, discovered that EGCG binds with the flu virus, thereby preventing it from causing an infection. This is a very promising discovery, since influenza causes many deaths throughout the world. |
Alex Steffen
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| Along with her team at MIT, the 2004 MacArthur "Genius" established a technique that combines both biomimicry and bio-assistance, using viruses to literally produce battery material based on the way the red abalone generates its shell —but much faster.
The viruses are not engineered, but are put into an environment they normally would never inhabit; their reaction to the surrounding materials turns them into a template that grows the desired material. Belcher and her team have also developed other viruses and yeasts that grow a variety of materials for engineering and medicine. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 Despite all its advances, modern medicine can only cure vitamin deficiencies, bacterial infections and a few caused by viruses, and the rare cancer. We still can't cure viruses that range from the common cold to the ones causing SARS or HIV. But while most medicines are not curative, they certainly can help the patient, either by beating back the cause of the disease or by reducing symptoms. The new medicines for HIV disease are illustrative. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Gary Gordon was giving these RNA factors to autistic children and knocking out the viruses and then getting the mercury detox. It is a more complex story. It is not like just going in and grabbing something, because somebody is on the other side saying, "No, I want it, and I am staying here." How do you get them out? It is a bigger picture. You have to be in the position not only to chelate mercury, if you could, but to knock out the viruses that are grabbing onto it even stronger than the chelation therapy.
Mike: That is interesting. How does a virus sequester heavy metals?
Dr. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 These so-called slow viruses known as prions are made of proteins rather than DNA or RNA, as are most viruses, and cause such conditions as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, kuru, scrapie, and the infamous mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
Prions were discovered by the American scientist Stanley Prusiner in the 1980s and have been found to cause spongiform encephalopathies?brain pathology marked by small holes in brain tissue. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| You have to be in the position not only to chelate mercury, if you could, but to knock out the viruses that are grabbing onto it even stronger than the chelation therapy.
Mike: That is interesting. How does a virus sequester heavy metals?
Dr. Liers: You will see this in the research literature more now. The therapies are aimed at knocking out the viruses, and maybe using these growth factors to make the cellular functioning better, maybe changing the cell potential, because cell potentials -- when they start coming down -- make the cell not able to function at the level it is supposed to. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 Ultraviolet light in the "B" spectrum inactivates many viruses, so that means that in the summer, viruses don't survive outside your body as long as they do in the winter, when there is less UVB getting through the ozone. D levels begin to fall in the fall. When the leaves start turning colors, the amount of UVB available to make vitamin D is negligible. In Michigan, for example, that's usually mid- or late September. By Thanksgiving and Christmas, in the upper half of the United States, many people have very low D levels. |
Ron Garner
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 It knows how to fight germs and viruses. When it comes to disease, there are three principles that must be understood:
1 All forms of disease are caused by accumulations of acid and toxic waste in the body's systems, the first and foremost of which is the colon. Disease starts in the colon.
2 The body initiates all acute diseases like colds, flu, fever, skin eruptions, diarrhea, scarlet fever, and measles, in attempts to reduce the accumulation of stored waste material. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 It outlines a possible energetic transmission for disease that may be as real in its effects on the body as are the effects of physical bacteria, viruses, or mold spores. We are suggesting that the body and its many immune systems may not be able to distinguish between a real disease-causing microbe and the energetic/informational field of one.
All chemical reactions—even those that happen inside a cell when it is infected with a disease-causing microorganism—are dependent on the way molecules form hydrogen bonds, on how those bonds form and how they break. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 They work because they bathe the throat tissues where viruses multiply. So reach for zinc lozenges during cold and flu season.
Nixing the Naysayers
Of course, like most natural treatments, zinc has its naysayers. One study in particular is widely touted by the antisupplement brigade as evidence that zinc has no effect on the common cold. But let's go to the videotape. Three dosages of zinc were given to subjects with colds—5 mg, 11.5 mg, and 13.3 mg. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| Because these conditions are typically caused by viruses, antibiotics are useless, and these physicians are actually causing harm by increasing the number of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, with the individual patient deriving absolutely no benefit. In fact, most viral illnesses are little more than an inconvenience that can be treated effectively with bed rest and time. Treatment with an antibiotic has no effect in terms of alleviating the symptoms of these illnesses, yet half of all antibiotics are prescribed for viral illnesses or other disorders on which they have no effect. |
| Most cases of the so-called flu are actually "influenzalike diseases," that is, infections caused by viruses other than the flu that are not prevented by the flu vaccine. In addition, the influenza vaccine does not prevent the most virulent forms of influenza, the ones that can actually cause death. |
| Ear infections occur when bacteria or viruses get into the small air pocket behind the eardrum (middle ear) and cause an infection, which leads to a buildup of pus accompanied by pain, fever, and possibly drainage of pus from the ear.
There is a small tube called the Eustachian tube that connects the middle ear to the throat and that lets air move in and out of the middle ear. In children less than three the Eustachian tube is very small and less able to keep bacteria out. That is why small children are particularly susceptible to ear infections. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 Also Known As
English: canker root, goldthread, mishmi bitter, mouthroot, vegetable gold, yellow root French:savoyarde German: niesswurz Hindi: mamira Italian: ruta dei prati Mandarin: hiiang lian Japanese: oren Korean: hwangnyon Sanskrit: mishamitita
Part Used
Rhizome
Physiological Effects
Alterative, analgesic, antibacterial, antibiotic, antiinflammatory, antiviral, bitter, cholagogue, febrifuge, ophthalmic, pectoral, refrigerant, stomachic
Medicinal Uses
Coptis prevents bacteria and viruses from proliferating. It also lowers fever and relaxes spasms by improving circulation. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| These medications are neuraminidase inhibitors that prevent replication of influenza A and B viruses by interfering with the production and release of the virus from cells that line the respiratory tract. To be useful, they both need to be taken within 48 hours of the onset of flu symptoms.
Tamiflu has been approved for treatment of the flu in children over the age of one and for prevention of the flu in patients over age thirteen. Side effects of both medications include swelling of the sinuses, diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting. Patients with asthma or COPD may experience breathing problems. |
Ron Garner
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| Colloidal silver acts to disable the breathing ability of bacteria, viruses, and fungi, causing them to suffocate and die very soon after contact.20 It promotes cell repair and tissue and bone healing.21 Colloidal silver in concentrations of 3-5 ppm is very safe to use and has no recorded side effects.22 However, silver nitrate or other forms of silver in various concentrations disturb the balance of body salts and are also corrosive and cause pain.23
Recommendations for using colloidal silver vary from one manufacturer to another. |
Michael T. Murray
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 All of these viruses replicate in the gut and stimulate the gut immune system, which may activate the insulin-specific immune cells to seek out and destroy beta cells. These viruses and others can also infect pancreatic beta cells, causing the white blood cells to attack and destroy the beta cells in an attempt to kill the virus. Gastrointestinal virus infections may also increase the gut permeability and enhance the antibody response to dietary bovine insulin as a result of increased absorption of the intact protein. |
Ron Garner
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| If we keep our bodies cleansed and free of toxic acid debris, there is no suitable environment for germs and viruses to live in. We remain in health even when others around us may be developing illnesses.
If we want to have a healthy body and vitality for a lifetime, we must take responsibility for educating ourselves, and from that, exercising personal discipline to change our lifestyles. Proper, mostly alkaline, nutrition is fundamental for building healthy cells.
WATER
Clean water, and enough of it, is an absolute requirement for health. |
| Harmful bacteria and viruses cannot thrive in a body that has a healthy terrain.
TERRAIN IS EVERYTHING
The word "terrain" usually refers to soil, but where the human body is concerned, it means biological terrain. Just as farmers need to be concerned about healthy nutrients and the condition of the soil to produce viable crops, we also need to be concerned about the healthy electrical and chemical condition of the body's biological terrain. |
| They are a necessary part of the biological process because they produce enzymes, vitamins, and antibiotics, and create electrical matrices that can inhibit cancers, deactivate viruses, reduce cholesterol, and enhance the immune system. Due to our modern diets, processed foods, chlorinated and fluoridated water, pharmaceutical antibiotics, and intestinal toxemia, friendly bacteria populations are greatly reduced in the human intestinal tract. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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| In addition to its wound-healing properties, lavender has been shown to exhibit activity against diphtheria, typhoid, pneumonia, staph, strep, and many flu viruses. The herb clears heat, calms the
The use of larch by pregnant and nursing women has not been studied comprehensively, so until such time as studies have shown larch to be safe, it would be best to avoid it at these times. Those on a low-galactose diet should avoid using preparations of concentrated arabinogalactans, such as those in some commercial products. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 James Chow, coauthor of Hypoglycemia for Dummies, notes that "part of the reason is that there are no viruses or anything concrete that one can point to, and the symptoms are too general and nonspecific.
"Also, hypoglycemia is not a disease per se, but a condition that is managed through dietary and lifestyle changes—not something doctors are taught in medical school. If it's not a disease entity for which they can write a prescription, then they don't think it exists," he observes. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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| We still can't cure viruses that range from the common cold to the ones causing SARS or HIV. But while most medicines are not curative, they certainly can help the patient, either by beating back the cause of the disease or by reducing symptoms. The new medicines for HIV disease are illustrative. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). If this virus is left untreated, more than 90 percent of the people it infects will die. |
Ron Garner
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| As oxygen content decreases, the various aliments and diseases that plague us increase. viruses, parasites, and fungi thrive in an oxygen-deficient environment. These facts lead us to understand a basic key to health and disease.
As the body's acid/alkaline ratio becomes more acidic, oxygen levels decrease. When it is balanced, oxygen levels are optimized, and that is how vital health is established.
THE BODY'S ACI D-AL KALI N E BALANCE
Without acid-alkaline balance we cannot achieve true health. It is that fundamental. |
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